Edmund paulson browne



(No Model.)

B. BROWNE. ROLL FOR HOLDING AND APPLYING GILDING FILMS. No. 582,979.

Patented May 18, 1897.

INVENTOR: A 6 ffihcrfr a WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT @EEicE,

EDMUND PAULSON BROIVNE, OF NEXVYORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HASTINGS &

' 00., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROLL FOR HOLDING AND APPLYING GlLDiNG-FILMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,979, dated May 18,1897. Application filed March 11, 1897. I Serial No. 626,931. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern: ing character which have invariably been Beit known that I, EDMUND PAULSON made of a cylindric form, it has beenneces- BROWNE, a citizen of the United States, resary to effect theunwinding for the applicasiding in the city and county of New York, intion of the leaf to the surface to be gilded, by the State of New York,have invented cermounting them on special machines in the tain new anduseful Improvements in Rolls nature of handle-provided carriers or otherfor Holding and Applying Metallic Gildingmanipulating and controllingdevices, the Leaves, of which the following is a specificaemployment ofwhich it is one of the objects tion. of my invention to avoid. to Myinvention relates in general to devices It is a further object of myinvention to employed in the gilders art both as a receptaavoid thewaste and incidental difficulty of cle or vehicle forcontaining andcarrying, and application inseparable from a continuous as a convenientmeans for directly applying, film of leaf, and to substitute in itsstead a metallic leaves of the character known as carrier device whichembodies a series of in- [5 gilders films, to surfaces to be gilded.dependent short sections of leaf more nearly My invention relates moreparticularly to in the nature of the leaves employed in that specialclass of the foregoing devices in booking of gold leaf. which acontinuous strip of paper to one sur- 4 To the foregoing ends myinvention, genface of which the film or leaf is applied and erallystated, comprehends a continuous strip 20 adheres, is adapted, togetherwith the applied of paper, or equivalent material which is upon andadhering leaf, to be rolled up to form a one of its sides prepared so asto be adhesive roll which serves as a containing receptacle toleaf,which is folded about a central flat or carrier for the leaf,andthen to be unwinding-core in a series of continuous longirolled for thepurpose of the application of tudinally-extendingsuccessivelyoverlapping25 the leaf to the surface to be gilded through flat folds,and which isas to the flat porthe medium of the paper strip itself from tions whichintervene between but do not which the leaf in the operation ofapplication form part of the bent or folded portions, of is detachable.said folds, provided with a series of sections In the manufacture ofrolls of the foregoor lengths of leaf shorter than the folds and 30 .ingcharacter as heretofore conducted, it has so applied as to adhere,allsubstantially in been customary to either wax or otherwise the mannerrepresented in the accompanying prepare one side of the strip of paperto indrawings and hereinafter described. sure the adherence of the leafto it; and, also, In the drawings, in addition to treating one side ofthe strip of Figure 1 represents afolder embodying my 35 paper in theforegoing manner to render its improvements and closed or folded up forsurface adhesive,to treat the reverse side storage or transportation.

of the same strip with chalky or kindred pow- Figures 2 and 3 areperspective views sightders to render said surface non-adhesive, so edin different directions, of the said folder of that the leaf upon theadhesive side may, in Figure 1, representing the leaf-provided strip 40the wound roll, by no possibility adhere to which composes it aspartly-unfolded. 0 the other side,a practice, of course, unnec- Figure 4is a top plan view upon a reduced essary with paper of such characterthat, scale ofthe inside or adhesive face of the unwithout specialtreatment leaf will not nat folded strip as an entirety, showing theseries urally adhere to it. of short sections of leaf applied and adher-5 It has also been the invariable custom to ing to it. apply themetallic leaf in a continuous strip, Similar letters of referenceindicate correa result accomplished by overlapping the sponding parts.ends of consecutively disposed short separate In the drawings, sectionsor leaves to insure literal continuity. A represents the strip of paper,rendered 50 In the practical use of rolls of the foregoadhesive upon oneside, which composes the too body proper of the folder and which, asindicated by the brackets to which the letters a are applied, is formedof a series of successive sections or flat folds which are adapted oneafter another to be successively overlapped upon one another from acentral internal flat core of appropriate dimensions, and conveniently,although not necessarily, composed of one or more folds of the paperstrip itself or of pasteboard or kindred material, to which the innerend of the strip of paper is fixed, or against which it is laid, to aterminal flap or outside fold which I have in the drawings designated asA Between the sections, folds, or lengths, a, of the strip A, intervenethe portions which in the ultimate folded produetconstitute the folds orbends, and which, for convenience of illustration, I have in thedrawings desig nated by the letters a B are the short sect-ions orleaves of the metallic leaf, placed upon the inside, or preparedadhesive surface, of the strip of paper, one leaf upon each fold, andeach leaf separated from the leaves adjoining it at each of its ends, bythe uncovered portion of the strip which in the completed folder formsthe fold or bent portion a By not making the leaf continuous I not onlysecure the advantage of avoiding waste of leaf, as the entire substanceof each leaf or section can be applied to the surface to be gilded, butI also save that waste of leaf which would inevitably ensue upon anattempt to bend gilders leaf into such a flat fold as paper is and canbe readily bent into for it is a fact that, while leaf can withoutdamage be bent in a circle of large radius, it cannot be abruptlybent,as, for instance, in making the folds of my device,-without beingbroken or so injured as to cause it to scale.

The free end of the strip may be secured in any preferred manner,conveniently by pointing it to form a tongue o and entering said tongueinto a transverse slit a in the fold which in the finished product itoverlaps, as indicated in Figure 1.

My device possesses the advantages of being compact and inexpensive, andalso being easily handled for the application of the separate sectionsof the leaf without the necessity of the employment of any handle,carrier, or other device.

Having thus described my invention, I clai1n- A folder for holding andapplying metallic gildin g leaves, which consists of a continuous stripof paper prepared upon one of its sides so as to be adhesive, and whichis folded about a center into a series of continuoussuccessively-overlapping flat folds the adhesive faces of the flatportions of which are pro- "ided with sections or lengths ofleavcs,-substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereuntosigned my name this 9th day of March, 1897.

EDMUND PAULSON BRO\VNE.

In presence of SAMUEL J. Evnn'rrr, \VILLIAM R. HANNA.

